What's new on CPAN - September 2017
Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!
APIs & Apps
- Convenient send Bitcoin from a NoodlePi using App::NoodlePay
- App::SSH::SwitchShell let’s you use your preferred shell and own home directory for shared SSH accounts
- Fetch the air date of your favorite TV show’s next episode using WebService::NextEpisode
- WebService::Vichan is an API client for 4chan and vichan-based imageboards
- A perl PagerDuty client with PagerDuty::Agent
- Sendmail::AbuseIPDB API access for IP address abuse database
- Slack::Notify can Trigger Slack incoming webhooks
- Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Client with Splunk::HEC
Config & Devops
- Map Perl releases to location of the tarballs via MetaCPAN API using CPAN::Perl::Releases::MetaCPAN
- Win32::PowerShell::IPC can interactively manipulate a captive PowerShell process
- Enumerate printers in Windows using Win32::EnumPrinters
Data
- Document::OOXML manipulates of Office Open XML files
- Geo::OSM::Render is a collection of modules to render OpenStreetMap data
- Text::Control transforms control characters and makes them easy to spot
Development & Version Control
- Acme::Data::Dumper::Extensions - experimental enhancements Data::Dumper, fun!
- Const::Fast::Exporter can export Const::Fast immutable variables
- Importer::Zim can import functions à la Invader Zim. Similar to Import::Box
- Convert lists to hashes extremely fast with List::ToHash
- Allow Moo attributes to be “thunked” using MooX::Thunking
- MooseX::AccessorsOnly can react when users root around inside your objects
- goto::file Stop parsing the current file and move on to a different one. Woah!
- Build trampolining functions with async/await syntax using Async::Trampoline
Hardware
- Lab::VXI11 Perl interface to VXI-11 test & measurement backend
- Use Pimoroni’s Awesome Unicorn HAT HD with RPi::UnicornHatHD
Language & International
- Emoji::NationalFlag convert from country code to national flag emoji
- Extract Strings To PO Files with Locale::XGettext
Science & Mathematics
- Crypt::Cisco provides commands for Cisco Type 7 Passwords
- MEME::Alphabet provides nucleobase alphabet capabilities for Perl code.
Web
- Dancer2::Plugin::OpenAPIRoutes creates routes automatically from a Swagger config file. Cool!
- Mojo::IOLoop::ReadWriteProcess executes external programs or internal code blocks as separate process.
- Mojolicious::Plugin::Loop provides convenience functions for looping in Mojo templates
This article was originally posted on PerlTricks.com.
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